Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (film)

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGordon Douglas
Screenplay byHarry Brown
Based onthe novel Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
by Horace McCoy
Produced byWilliam Cagney
StarringJames Cagney
Barbara Payton
Helena Carter
CinematographyJ. Peverell Marley
Edited byWalter Hannemann
Truman K. Wood
Music byCarmen Dragon
Production
company
William Cagney Productions
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • August 4, 1950 (1950-08-04) (United States)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.7 million[1]

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a 1950 film noir starring James Cagney, directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by William Cagney and based on the novel by Horace McCoy. The film was banned in Ohio as "a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission."[2]

Supporting Cagney are Luther Adler as a crooked lawyer, and Ward Bond and Barton MacLane as two crooked cops.

  1. ^ "Top Grosses of 1950". Variety. January 3, 1951. p. 58.
  2. ^ Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.